Summer of Faulkner (oprah's Book Club) [box Set]

As I Lay Dying/ the Sound and the Fury/ Light in August

€ 31.95

The 2005 Summer Selection is available in an exclusive three volume
boxed edition that includes a special reader's guide with an
introduction by Oprah Winfrey.

Titles include :

As I
Lay Dying

This novel is the harrowing account of the Bundren
family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie,
their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family
members-including Addie herself-the novel ranges in mood from dark
comedy to the deepest pathos. Originally published in 1930.

The Sound and the Fury

First published in 1929,
Faulkner created his heart's darling, the beautiful and tragic Caddy
Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her
three brothers-the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the
monstrous Jason.

Light in August

Light in August, a
novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features
some of Faulkner's most memorable characters :guileless, dauntless
Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend
Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen;
and Joe Christmas, a desperate, mysterious drifter consumed by his
mixed ancestry. Originally published in 1932.

The author:William Faulkner was born in 1897 in Mississippi. He left high school
at fifteen to work in his grandfather?s bank. Rejected by the US
military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers but was still in
training when the war ended. Returning home he studied at the
University of Mississippi